Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva Personal Details Name: João Manuel das Neves Silva Date of birth: 26 th July 1971 Nationality: Portuguese Marital Status: Married Mobile phone: +351 91 6312419 E-mail: joaonevessilva@gmail.com Work Address: Tropical Research Institute (IICT) Travessa do Conde da Ribeira 9 1300-142 Lisboa, PORTUGAL Telephone: +351 21 3616340 ext. 210 Fax: +351 21 3640046 Academic Qualifications 2005 Ph.D., Forestry, School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal: Mapping Burned Areas in Tropical, Temperate and Boreal Regions Using Remote Sensing Data from SPOT 4 VEGETATION. 6 months were spent in Italy, in the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. 2 months of fieldwork in Mozambique and Zambia. 1999 Master, Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. 1996 Graduation, Forestry, Department of Forestry, School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Employment Positions Held April 2007 present Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Lisbon, Portugal, in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany. The main goal of this research is modelling the relationship between fire and vegetation dynamics in the tropics. At present I m focusing on the compilation of cartography about the distribution of slash and burn agriculture in tropical forest ecosystems. 1995 to March 2007 Research Scientist, Department of Forestry, School of Agronomy, Lisbon, Portugal. I worked on several research projects on burned area and land cover mapping. This involved the use of remote sensing to determine the distribution of fire occurrence and the amount of vegetation burned at regional and global scale. I was also co-editor of two books, one on forest fire prevention and fighting, and another one on the environmental impacts of eucalypt plantations in Portugal. Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva 1/6
January to June 2001 Research Scientist, Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy. Responsible for the algorithm development for burned area mapping in Africa and validation of the final map in the framework of the Global Burnt Area 2000 project. Research Experience Ph.D. research: I did my Ph.D. in the framework of two large international projects: the Global Burnt Area 2000 (GBA 2000), an initiative of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy, and the Southern Africa Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative 2000 (SAFARI 2000), coordinated by the University of Virginia, U.S.A. The main goal of GBA 2000 was to produce a map of burned areas at the global scale for the year 2000. This map was the first produced at 1km spatial resolution and is used by atmospheric chemists and climate change modellers. I was responsible for the development and validation of algorithms for burned area mapping in Africa, Southern Europe and China/Siberia using satellite images from the SPOT-VEGETATION sensor. The objectives of the SAFARI 2000 were to study the linkages between land and atmosphere processes in the southern African region. My Portuguese colleagues and I were responsible for producing and validating a high resolution map of burned areas in Northern Mozambique and estimating the combustion efficiency of vegetation in research sites in Zambia. We spent two months of fieldwork in Mozambique and Zambia. Other research projects: Development and Testing of Algorithms for a Global Burnt Area Product from ERS ATSR-2 project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Forest Research Centre (CEF) of the School of Agronomy, Lisbon, Portugal. The goal was to develop and test algorithms for burned area mapping at global scale with images from the satellite ATSR-2. Fire Regional Assessment and Carbon Tracking in Arnhem Land (SMOKO/FRACTAL) project, resulting from the collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy and the Department of Forestry of the School of Agronomy, Lisbon, Portugal. Main goal: development and test of a multi-system approach to burnt area mapping from optical, thermal and microwave satellite data. Fieldwork in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. Fire Activity in the Guiana Shield, the Orinoco and Amazon Basins During March 1998 project, an initiative of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy. Fieldwork in Suriname, to capture images from the AVHRR sensor with a portable antenna. The main objective was the detection of active fires and smoke plumes during the field campaign, and inform the colleagues of the CLAIRE/LBA (Cooperative LBA Airborne Regional experiment / Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment) project about the location of those fires. Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva 2/6
Undergraduate Teaching Co-supervisor, Irene Pecegueiro, graduation (Forestry) final report (2003). Spatial Patterns of Burned Area Orientation in Portugal (1990-2001). School of Agronomy, Lisbon, Portugal. Peer-reviewing - Remote Sensing of Environment - International Journal of Remote Sensing - International Journal of Wildland Fire Training Courses 2007 SummerSchool: Understanding Global Environmental Change: Processes, Compartments and Interactions, Netherlands Research School for the Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE), Hulshorst, Netherlands (6 days). 2003 Methods for Conceiving and Developing Project Proposals, Sindicato dos Quadros Técnicos do Estado, Lisbon, Portugal (30 hours). 2002 Presentation Techniques, Sindicato dos Quadros Técnicos do Estado, Lisbon, Portugal (24 hours). 2002 Introduction to IDL, Research Systems, London, U.K. (3 days). 2001 Environmental Management and Legislation, Nova Etapa, Lisbon, Portugal (60 hours). 2001 Italian Language Course, Knowledge Management and Training Unit of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy (30 hours). 2000 Introduction to ArcView GIS, ESRI Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal (3days). Other Skills English: good level of reading, writing, speaking. Knowledge of MS Windows, remote sensing software (TNT Mips, ENVI, IDRISI, ER Mapper), GIS software (ArcView) and statistical software (Statistica, S-Plus, CART). Publications Thesis: Silva, J. M. N. (2004). Mapping Burned Areas in Tropical, Temperate and Boreal Regions Using Remote Sensing Data from SPOT 4 VEGETATION. Ph.D. thesis in Forestry. School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva 3/6
Silva, J. M. N. (1999). Application of Multivariate Methods for Burned Area Mapping Using Landsat 5 TM Data. Master thesis in Applied Mathematics. School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Books (editor): Alves, A. M., J. S. Pereira e J. M. N. Silva, Eds. (2007). O Eucaliptal em Portugal: Impactes Ambientais e Investigação Científica. ISAPress (ISBN 978-972-8669-25-6), Lisboa. Pereira, J. S., J. M. C. Pereira, F. C. Rego, J. M. N. Silva e T. P. Silva, Eds. (2006). Incêndios Florestais em Portugal: Caracterização, Impactes e Prevenção. ISAPress (ISBN 972-8669-17-8), Lisboa. Chapters in books: Silva, J. M. N., H. Feith e J. M. C. Pereira (2007). Exploração e silvicultura pós-fogo em eucaliptais. In: O Eucaliptal em Portugal: Impactes Ambientais e Investigação Científica, A. M. Alves, J. S. Pereira e J. M. N. Silva (eds.), ISAPress, Lisboa. Alves, A. M., J. S. Pereira e J. M. N. Silva (2007). A introdução e a expansão do eucalipto em Portugal. In: O Eucaliptal em Portugal: Impactes Ambientais e Investigação Científica, A. M. Alves, J. S. Pereira e J. M. N. Silva (eds.), ISAPress, Lisboa. Pereira, J. M. C., J. M. B. Carreiras, J. M. N. Silva e Maria J. Vasconcelos (2006). Alguns conceitos básicos sobre os fogos rurais em Portugal. In: Incêndios Florestais em Portugal: Caracterização, Impactes e Prevenção, Pereira, J. S., J. M. C. Pereira, F. C. Rego, J. M. N. Silva e T. P. Silva (eds.), ISAPress, Lisboa: pp 133 161. Arino, O., I. Piccolini, E. Kasischke, F. Siegert, E. Chuvieco, P. Martin, Z. Li, R. H. Fraser, H. Eva, D. Stroppiana, J. M. C. Pereira, J. M. N. Silva, D. Roy and P. M. Barbosa (2001). Methods of Mapping Burned Surfaces in Vegetation Fires. In: Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space: Planning a Coordinated International Effort, F. Ahern, J. Goldammer and C. Justice (eds.), SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands: pp 227-255. Pereira, J. M. C., A.C. L. Sá, A. M. O. Sousa, J. M. N. Silva, T. N. Santos and J. M. B. Carreiras (1999). Spectral characterisation and discrimination of burnt areas. In: Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires in the European Mediterranean Basin, E. Chuvieco (ed.), Ecological Studies Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin: pp 123-138. Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees: Silva, J. M. N., A. C. L. Sá and J. M. C. Pereira (2005). Comparison of burned area estimates derived from SPOT-VEGETATION and Landsat ETM+ data in Africa: influence of spatial pattern and vegetation type. Remote Sensing of Environment, 96: 188-201. Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva 4/6
Silva, J. M. N., J. F. C. L. Cadima, J. M. C. Pereira and J.-M. Grégoire (2004). Assessing the feasibility of a global model for multitemporal burned area mapping using SPOT-VEGETATION data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(22): 4889-4913. Silva, J. M. N., J. M. C. Pereira, A. I. Cabral, A. C. L. Sá, M. J. P. Vasconcelos, B. Mota and J-M Grégoire (2003). An estimate of the area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, D13, 8498, doi:10.1029/2002jd002320. Sá, C. L., J. M. C. Pereira and J. M. N. Silva (2005). Estimation of combustion completeness based on fire-induced spectral reflectance changes in a dambo grassland (Western Province, Zambia). International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(19): 4185 4195. Tansey, K., J-M. Grégoire, D. Stroppiana, A. Sousa, J. Silva, J. Pereira, L. Boschetti, M. Maggi, P. Brivio, R. Fraser, S. Flasse, D. Ershov, E. Binaghi, D. Graetz, and P. Peduzzi (2004). Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D14S03, doi:10.1029/2003jd003598. Tansey, K., J-M. Grégoire, E. Binaghi, L. Boschetti, A. Brivio, D. Ershov, S. Flasse, R. Fraser, D. Graetz, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J. Pereira, J. Silva, A. Sousa and D. Stroppiana (2004). A global inventory of burned areas at 1 km resolution for the year 2000 derived from SPOT VEGETATION data. Climatic Change, 67(2): 345-377. Pereira, J. M. C., B. Mota, J. L. Privette, K. K. Caylor, J. M. N. Silva, A. C. L. Sá and W. Ni-Meister (2004). A simulation analysis of the detectability of understory burns in mionbo woodlands. Remote Sensing of Environment, 93: 296-310. Grégoire, J-M., K. Tansey and J. M. N. Silva (2003). The GBA2000 initiative: Developing a global burned area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(6): 1369-1376. Sousa, A. M. O., J. M. C. Pereira and J. M. N. Silva (2003). Evaluating the performance of multitemporal image compositing algorithms for burned area analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(6): 1219-1236. Sá, A. C. L., J. M. C. Pereira, M. J. P. Vasconcelos, J. M. N. Silva, N. Ribeiro and A. Awasse (2003). Assessing the feasibility of sub-pixel burned area mapping in Miombo woodlands of Northern Mozambique using MODIS imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(8): 1783-1796. Papers in conference proceedings: Silva, J. M. N. and J. M. C. Pereira (2006). Burned area mapping in Africa with SPOT-VEGETATION imagery: accuracy assessment with Landsat ETM+ data, influence of spatial pattern and vegetation Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva 5/6
type. In: Global Developments in Environmental Earth Observation from Space, 25 th EARSeL Symposium, Porto, Portugal, 6-11 June 2005, A. Marçal (ed.), Millpress, Rotterdam: pp 367-376. Silva, J. M. N., A. M. O. Sousa, J. M. C. Pereira, K. Tansey and J-M. Grégoire (2002). A contribution for a global burned area map. In: Forest Fire Research & Wildland Fire Safety, D. X. Viegas (ed.), Millpress, Rotterdam. Silva, J. M. N., J. Cadima e J. M. C. Pereira (2001). Aplicação de técnicas de estatística multivariada à cartografia de áreas ardidas com imagens do satélite Landsat 5 TM. In: A Estatística em Movimento, Actas do VIII Congresso Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística, Peniche, Portugal, 4 a 7 de Outubro, 2000, M. Neves, J. Cadima, M. Martins e F. Rosado (eds.): pp 401-407. Silva, J. M. N., P. Amaral, J. M. C. Pereira, P. Pina and F. Muge (2000). Segmentation and orientation analysis of fire scars in remotely sensing images. In: Proceedings of RecPad 2000, 11 th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Porto, Portugal, May 11 th - 12 th 2000, A. Campilho and A. Mendonça (eds.): pp 165-171. Stroppiana, D., M. Maggi, J. M. Pereira, D. Graetz, J-M. Grégoire, J. Silva, A. Sá, P. Henry, V. Gond and E. Bartholomé (2000). Detection and mapping of burnt areas and active fires in tropical woodland ecosystems with the VEGETATION sensor: the SMOKO-FRACTAL case study over Northern Australia. In: Proceedings of VEGETATION 2000: 2 Years of Operations to Prepare the Future, Lake Maggiore, Italy, April 3 rd - 6 th 2000, Gilbert Saint (ed.): pp 335-345. Silva, J. M. N. and J. M. C. Pereira (1998). Evaluation of the performance of various Landsat 5 TM spectral indices to map burned areas. In: Proceedings of the III International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Luso, Portugal, November 16 th - 20 th 1998, D. X. Viegas (ed.): pp 2703-2710. Papers in national journals: Silva, J. M. N. e J. M. C. Pereira (1999). Detecção e cartografia de áreas ardidas baseada em índices espectrais Landsat 5 TM. Silva Lusitana, 7(1): 23-37. Sousa, A. M. O., J. M. N. Silva e J. M. C. Pereira (1997). Cartografia de áreas ardidas em Portugal com imagens Landsat 5 TM. Revista Florestal, 10(1): 19-26. Curriculum Vitae João Neves Silva 6/6